1st Edition
Activism on the Web Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism
By Veronica Barassi
Copyright 2015
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Activism on the Web examines the everyday tensions that political activists face as they come to terms with the increasingly commercialized nature of web technologies and sheds light on an important, yet under-investigated, dimension of the relationship between contemporary forms of social protest and internet technologies.
Drawing on anthropological and ethnographic research amongst three... Read more
Introduction: Activist Cultures, The Web, and Digital Capitalism 1.The Ethnography of Digital Activism 2. Web 2.0 and the Agency of Technologies 3. Social Media Activism and the Critique of Mass Self-Communication 4. The Everyday Critique of Digital Labor 5. Digital Activism and the Problem of Internet Time 6. Activist Magazines in the Digital Age Conclusion: The Future of the Web, Big Data and the Power of Critique Appendix: Activism on the Web: A Note on Method
Biography
Veronica Barassi is Lecturer in the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
